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Perspectives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax

Essays in Honor of R. Amritavalli

  • Includes contributions from major syntacticians across the world

  • Is a very rich and carefully argued source in the cross-linguistic study of syntax

  • Provides important perspectives on cross-linguistic data

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. A Life in Linguistics

    • Gautam Sengupta, Shruti Sircar, Madhavi Gayathri Raman, Rahul Balusu
    Pages 1-19
  3. Architecture of Syntax: The Engines of Syntax

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
    2. English One and Ones as Complex Determiners

      • Richard S. Kayne
      Pages 77-114
  4. Architecture of Syntax: Focus and the VP domain

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
  5. Architecture of Syntax: The Syntax-Semantics Interface

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
  6. Acquisition of Syntax

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
    2. The Influence of Visual, Auditory, and Linguistic Cues on Children’s Novel Verb Generalization

      • Bhuvana Narasimhan, Fanyin Cheng, Patricia Davidson, Pui Fong Kan, Madison Wagner
      Pages 217-233
    3. On the Child’s Role in Syntactic Change

      • William Snyder
      Pages 235-242

About this book

This festschrift volume brings together important contributions by expert syntacticians across the globe on tense and finiteness, adjectives, dative and ergative case, acquisition of case, and other topics both within the domain of Dravidian linguistics and in the broader theoretical understanding of cross-linguistic data. Professor R. Amritavalli, a renowned linguist, has spent over three decades in the fields of syntax and syntactic acquisition, making important and landmark contributions in these areas, and this book is a recognition of her work. The contributors cover these themes in the context of English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi-Urdu, Bangla, Dravidian languages, and understudied languages like Huave. The analyses presented here have major implications for current theories of syntax and semantics, first and second language acquisition, language typology and historical linguistics, and will be a valuable resource for students, researchers and teachers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Center for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

    Gautam Sengupta

  • Department of Linguistics and Contemporary English, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India

    Shruti Sircar

  • Department of Materials Development, Testing and Evaluation, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India

    Madhavi Gayathri Raman

  • Department of Computational Linguistics, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India

    Rahul Balusu

About the editors

Gautam Sengupta is Professor of Applied Linguistics, Centre for Applied Linguistics & Translation Studies, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India

Shruti Sircar is Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics & Contemporary English, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India

Madhavi Gayathri Raman is Assistant Professor, Department of Materials, Testing and Evaluation, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India 

Rahul Balusu is Assistant Professor (tenured), Department of Computational Linguistics, The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India

 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Perspectives on the Architecture and Acquisition of Syntax

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Honor of R. Amritavalli

  • Editors: Gautam Sengupta, Shruti Sircar, Madhavi Gayathri Raman, Rahul Balusu

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4295-9

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-4294-2Published: 19 March 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3837-3Published: 09 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-4295-9Published: 06 March 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 259

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Syntax, Learning & Instruction, Natural Language Processing (NLP)

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eBook USD 99.00
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Softcover Book USD 129.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 129.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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